Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
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Patent number: 11484625Abstract: This invention relates to a bone regeneration product comprising at least one stem cell, at least one scaffold, and at least one stem cell. The stem cells suitable for this invention may comprise stem cells suitable for a dense bone regeneration, stem cells suitable for a spongy bone regeneration, or a combination thereof. The bone regeneration product may further comprise a growth factor. This invention also relates to a bone regeneration method and treatment of any bone that has a critical size defect. This invention also relates to a scaffold. This invention further relates to a 3D printed scaffold comprising hydroxyapatite (HA) and tricalcium phosphate (TCP). This invention also relates to a scaffold comprising a polymer. The polymer of this invention may be prepared by using photocurable polymers and/or monomers. The scaffold of this invention may comprise a growth factor and a small molecule. The small molecule N may be a Smurf1 inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: ALFRED E. MANN INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAInventors: Yang Chai, Yong Chen, Yuan Yuan, Yuxing Guo, Xiangjia Li, Zoe Johnson
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Patent number: 11488308Abstract: A three-dimensional object detection method includes: extracting a target in a two-dimensional image by a pre-trained deep convolutional neural network to obtain a plurality of target objects; determining a point cloud frustum in a corresponding three-dimensional point cloud space based on each target object; segmenting the point cloud in the frustum based on a point cloud segmentation network to obtain a point cloud of interest; and estimating parameters of a 3D box in the point cloud of interest based on a network with the weighted channel features to obtain the parameters of the 3D box for three-dimensional object detection. According to the present invention, the features of the image can be learned more accurately by the deep convolutional neural network and the parameters of the 3D box in the point cloud of interest are estimated based on the network with the weighted channel features.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Xin Zhao, Kaiqi Huang, Zhe Liu
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Patent number: 11486232Abstract: An exploiting method and device of marine facies natural gas hydrate. The exploiting method comprises the following steps: (1) after the construction of a vertical well, a fixed pipe is constructed, the exploiting well is set in the center of the fixed pipe, and the mixture is filled between the inner wall of the fixed pipe and the outer wall of the exploiting well; (2) the self-excited oscillating jet nozzle enters the exploiting well along the vertical well to the designated position through an orifice on the exploiting well and sprays the mixture, so that the mixture is broken evenly to form artificial fractures; (3) under the corresponding temperature, the hydrate decomposes to produce gas by depressurized exploiting; (4) the gas-liquid mixture exploited by the exploiting well is separated into liquid and gas in the gas-liquid separation device to collect liquid and gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Xiaosen Li, Pengfei Shen, Gang Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yu Zhang, Yi Wang, Jianwu Liu
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Patent number: 11488069Abstract: A method for predicting air quality with the aid of machine learning models includes: (A) providing air pollution data to perform an eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) regression algorithm for obtaining a XGBoost prediction value; (B) providing the air pollution data to perform a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) algorithm for obtaining an LSTM prediction value; (C) combining the air pollution data, the XGBoost prediction value and the LSTM prediction value to generate air pollution combination data; (D) performing an XGBoost classification algorithm to obtain a suggestion for whether to issue an air pollution alert; and (E) performing the XGBoost regression algorithm on the air pollution combination data to obtain an air pollution prediction value. Two layers of machine learning models are built, and a situation where prediction results are too conservative when a single model does not have enough data can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Li-Yen Kuo, Chih-Lun Liao, Chun-Han Tai, Hao-Yu Kao
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Patent number: 11488395Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicular navigation are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives, from one or more sensors, sensor data pertaining to a roadway section that is proximate to a vehicle; generates segmented sensor data to identify, in the roadway section, one or more boundary lines of one or more lanes; determines, from the sensor data, a direction of travel associated with at least one of the one or more lanes; applies a graphical model to the segmented sensor data to generate an output that includes a set of discrete points corresponding to the one or more boundary lines; generates an objective map of the roadway section from the set of discrete points; and uses the objective map to assist the vehicle in navigating the roadway section.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Shunsho Kaku, Ryan W. Wolcott
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Patent number: 11490406Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for downlink data reception and HARQ-ACK transmission in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, in the method, device, and system for downlink data reception and HARQ-ACK transmission, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for scheduling of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is received, and a second PDCCH for scheduling of a second PDSCH is received. Thereafter, uplink control information (UCI) including a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledge (ACK) codebook for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH is transmitted to a base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
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Patent number: 11488841Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package, the method including providing a semiconductor chip on a substrate, providing a bonding member between the substrate and the semiconductor chip, and bonding the semiconductor chip on the substrate by irradiating of a laser on the substrate. Here, the bonding member may include a thermosetting resin, a curing agent, and a laser absorbing agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Yong Sung Eom, Kwang-Seong Choi, Ki Seok Jang, Seok-Hwan Moon, Jiho Joo
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Patent number: 11486053Abstract: A pyramidal growth method for long-seed KDP-type crystal. In the growth method provided by the present invention, the lower end of the long-seed crystal is restricted by a lower tray, and the upper end is free to grow into a pyramidal. At the same time, the four prismatic faces at two directions of [100] and [010] can grow, avoiding growth stress problem during crystal growth, and all cut optical elements have high optical quality. Because the growth process is that four prismatic faces with highly similar growth environments grow at the same time and stirring is applied by blade-like stirring paddles during the crystal growth process, the cut optical elements have high optical uniformity.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Bin Wang, Hongji Qi, Jianda Shao, Duanyang Chen
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Patent number: 11487698Abstract: Disclosed herein are a parameter server and a method for sharing distributed deep-learning parameters using the parameter server. The method for sharing distributed deep-learning parameters using the parameter server includes initializing a global weight parameter in response to an initialization request by a master process; performing an update by receiving a learned local gradient parameter from the worker process, which performs deep-learning training after updating a local weight parameter using the global weight parameter; accumulating the gradient parameters in response to a request by the master process; and performing an update by receiving the global weight parameter from the master process that calculates the global weight parameter using the accumulated gradient parameters of the one or more worker processes.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Shin-Young Ahn, Eun-Ji Lim, Yong-Seok Choi, Young-Choon Woo, Wan Choi
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Patent number: 11488586Abstract: Disclosed is a system for speech recognition text enhancement fusing multi-modal semantic invariance, the system includes an acoustic feature extraction module, an acoustic down-sampling module, an acoustic feature extraction module, an acoustic down-sampling module, an encoder and a decoder fusing multi-modal semantic invariance; the acoustic feature extraction module is configured for frame-dividing processing of speech data, dividing the speech data into short-term audio frames with a fixed length, extracting thank acoustic features from the short-term audio frames, and inputting the acoustic features into the acoustic down-sampling module for down-sampling to obtain an acoustic representation; inputting the speech data into an existing speech recognition module to obtain input text data, and inputting the input text data into the encoder to obtain an input text encoded representation; inputting the acoustic representation and the input text encoded representation into the decoder to fuse.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Jianhua Tao, Shuai Zhang, Jiangyan Yi
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Patent number: 11489014Abstract: A monolithic solar cell includes a first solar cell that is a sequential stack of an electrode, a silicon substrate, and an n-type emitter layer; a recombination layer disposed on the n-type emitter layer; an interfacial layer that is a double layer constituted of PEDOT:PSS and poly-TPD or PEDOT:PSS and PCDTBT, and that is disposed on the recombination layer; and a second solar cell that includes a p-type hole selective layer and a perovskite layer disposed on the p-type hole selective layer, the a p-type hole selective layer contacting and being integrated onto the interfacial layer of the first solar cell in a heat treatment during which the interfacial layer is partially decomposed, wherein the presence of the interfacial layer prevents a reduction in photoelectric conversion efficiency that occurs if the first solar cell and the second solar cell are combined without the presence of the interfacial layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Doh Kwon Lee, Yoon Hee Jang, In Ho Kim, Hee Sun Yun, Jeung Hyun Jeong
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Patent number: 11484479Abstract: Provided herein are microspheres containing an antimicrobial agent encapsulated within a glycosidic polymer and use thereof, especially to inhibit the growth of carie-causing organism.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Research Institute at Nationwide Children's HospitalInventors: Steven David Goodman, Lauren Mashburn Warren
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Patent number: 11487044Abstract: The present invention relates to a trench cross-section reference line setting device, comprising: a trench reference line setting body unit (100) for setting a trench cross-section reference line, wherein the trench reference line setting body unit (100) has a sensor unit (10) at the center thereof, two horizontal units (20) orthogonal to each other on the upper surface thereof, and three laser light source units (30) and a grid photographing unit (110?), respectively, on the side surfaces thereof; a reference line setting tripod unit (200) rotatably coupled to the trench reference line setting body unit (100) and having a posture adjusting unit (230) and a height adjusting unit (250); and a trench stratum analysis server (300) for receiving a fault image photographed by the grid photographing unit (110?) of the trench reference line setting body unit (100) and creating a stratum map of a trench cross-section structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCES AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Yong Sik Gihm, Kwangmin Jin, Jin Hyuck Choi
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Patent number: 11488801Abstract: A 3D imaging system and method for a nanostructure is provided. The 3D imaging system includes a master control center, a vacuum chamber, an electron gun, an imaging signal detector, a broad ion beam source device, and a laser rangefinder component. A sample loading device is arranged inside the vacuum chamber. A radial source of the broad ion beam source device is arranged in parallel with an etched surface of a sample. The laser rangefinder component includes a first laser rangefinder configured to measure a distance from a top surface of an ion beam shielding plate and a second laser rangefinder configured to measure a distance from a non-etched area of the sample, the first laser rangefinder and the second laser rangefinder are arranged side by side, and a laser traveling direction is perpendicular to a traveling direction of the broad ion beam source device.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Zhongming Du, Jijin Yang
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Patent number: 11488003Abstract: An artificial neural network apparatus and an operating method including a plurality of layer processors for performing operations on input data are disclosed. The artificial neural network apparatus may include: a flag layer processor for outputting a flag according to a comparison result between a pooling output value of a current frame and a pooling output value of a previous frame; and a controller for stopping operation of a layer processor which performs operations after the flag layer processor among the plurality of layer processors when the flag is outputted from the flag layer processor, wherein the flag layer processor is a layer processor that performs a pooling operation first among the plurality of layer processors.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Ju-Yeob Kim, Byung Jo Kim, Seong Min Kim, Jin Kyu Kim, Mi Young Lee, Joo Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 11488613Abstract: Disclosed are a method for coding a residual signal of LPC coefficients based on collaborative quantization and a computing device for performing the method. The residual signal coding method includes: generating encoded LPC coefficients and LPC residual signals by performing LPC analysis and quantization on an input speech; Determining a predicted LPC residual signal by applying the LPC residual signal to cross module residual learning; Performing LPC synthesis using the coded LPC coefficients and the predicted LPC residual signal; It may include the step of determining an output speech that is a synthesized output according to a result of performing the LPC synthesis.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, The Trustees of Indiana UniversityInventors: Minje Kim, Kai Zhen, Mi Suk Lee, Seung Kwon Beack, Jongmo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Jin Soo Choi
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Patent number: 11488479Abstract: A method and system for generating and outputting a targeting warning in association with a road agent is provided. The method includes detecting, by a sensor operating in conjunction with a computing device of a vehicle, a road agent at a distance from the vehicle, analyzing, by the computing device of the vehicle, one or more characteristics of the road agent at the distance, generating, by the computing device, a targeted warning based on analyzing the one or more characteristics of the road agent at the distance, and outputting, by a component operating in conjunction with the computing device of the vehicle, the targeted warning in association with the road agent at the distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventor: Simon A. I. Stent
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Patent number: 11489315Abstract: An on-chip integrated semiconductor laser structure and a method for preparing the same. The structure includes: an epitaxial structure including a first N contact layer, a first N confinement layer, a first active region, a first P confinement layer, a first P contact layer, an isolation layer, a second N contact layer, a second N confinement layer, a second active region, a second P confinement layer, and a second P contact layer sequentially deposited on a substrate; a first waveguide and a second waveguide; a first optical grating and a second optical grating; and current injection windows.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Chengao Yang, Zhichuan Niu, Yu Zhang, Yingqiang Xu, Shengwen Xie, Yi Zhang, Jinming Shang
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Patent number: 11484883Abstract: The present invention may provide a microfluidic device including a rotatable body; a first chamber positioned in a direction of an inner wall of the body; a second chamber positioned in a direction of an outer wall of the body from the first chamber; and a backflow prevention unit, and wherein a fluid is transferred from the first chamber to the second chamber, and wherein the backflow prevention unit prevents a backflow of the fluid from the second chamber to the first chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY), CLINOMICS CO.Inventors: Yoon Kyoung Cho, Tae-Hyeong Kim, Kyusang Lee, Heechul Park
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Patent number: 11486810Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescence sensor for measuring microalgae and a method of operating the same. The fluorescence sensor for measuring the microalgae includes a fluorescence measurement unit including a light emitter configured to irradiate excitation light onto a measurement region and a detector configured to measure fluorescence emitted from the measurement region, an algae control unit configured to form a node and an antinode of an ultrasonic standing wave in the measurement region to control an algal density, and a signal processing unit configured to calculate the algal density using fluorescence intensity signals according to an operation mode of the algae control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Woo Seok Yang, Sung Q Lee, Chang Han Je, Gunn Hwang, Hyung Kun Lee